sizable

/ˈsaɪzəbəl/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

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adj

"He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from."
"A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes."

Etymology tree English size Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English sizable From size + -able.

more sizable (comparative) most sizable (superlative) sizeable (alternative)

sizableness sizably unsizable

resizable

recognizable advisable sizeable unrecognizable inadvisable realizable realisable

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How do you pronounce sizable?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsaɪzəbəl/.

What does sizable mean?

Fairly large.

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